【内容紹介】ダヴィンチにはフランソワ1世、ミケランジェロにはユリウス2世というように、ルネッサンス期における芸術家たちの活躍の背景には、彼らを支援した庇護者の姿がありました。職人と芸術家の区別もなかった時代背景を踏まえ、両者の関係を美術史研究の権威である高階秀爾氏がユニークに解説します。【講師紹介】美術評論家 高階秀爾- 1932年生まれ。ルネッサンス以後の西洋美術を専門としながら、日本近代美術にも造詣が深い。著書『名画を見る眼』『芸術のパトロンたち』など多数。

A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the esteemed Bookmarked series, acclaimed author Brian Evenson offers his personal and literary take on this classic Carver collection.

名作はどのように生まれたのだろうか？　本書は，西洋絵画の本質について一歩進んで理解したいとする人びとの願いに応えて執筆された，西洋美術鑑賞の手引きである．一枚の絵に隠された芸術家の意図，精神性を探りながら歴史を一望する．

How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully "objective"? What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this very short introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of science and investigates fascinating, challenging questions such as these.

8年連続、公務員1次試験合格率100％（*）の実績を持つ、シグマ・ライセンス・スクール浜松が提供する、らくらく聞くだけ勉強法、暗記「文学・芸術・日本文化史」篇です！
公務員試験は出題範囲が広く、暗記教科はできるだけ効果的に覚えたいと思ったことはありませんか？これなら繰り返し聞き流すだけで、自然と覚えることができます！
らくらく3つのメリット 1.耳からの記憶力が高い！ 2.繰り返し勉強できる！ 3...

新型コロナへの対応に追われた数年。企業にとっては本来なら、この時期に手を打っておかなければならなかったことがあった。ビジネスの新ルールへの対応だ。２０２０年から２２年は、働き方・経営・ビジネ

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely.

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

Contemporary art has never been so popular - but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization, there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today and the identity of who is controlling its future. In the midst of this, contemporary art continues to be a realm of freedom where artists shock, break taboos, flout generally received ideas, and switch between confronting viewers with works of great emotional profundity and jaw-dropping triviality.

契約ルールを定める民法が１８９６年の制定から１２０年ぶりに抜本改正された。

From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Also available: The History of Opera.

23 stories, all unabridged, from a diverse group of star writers and readers. A truly memorable collection with a wide appeal. Includes "The Years Midnight" by Helen Simpson, read by Harriet Walter; "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful Morning" by Haruki Marukami, read by Walter Lewis; "Bablady" by A. S. Byatt, read by Roslaind Eyres; "Hotel des Vaoyaguerus" by William Boyd, read by Martin Jarvis; and "Who?" by Fay Weldon, read by Julie Christie.

Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently and understand our place in it, how it helps us express ourselves, fuels our creativity, and contributes to our overall wellbeing and positive mental health.

E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

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　今や労働者の３分の１を占めるまでに膨らんだ非正規。 　第一世代に当たる就職氷河期世代は40代に突入。親の介護や自身の高齢化による体力の衰え…、今後は若年層のような支援策やセーフティネットのない中年フリーターが抱える問題が、顕在化してくる。 　企業が“調整弁”として都合よく使ってきたツケは社会全体に跳ね返る。このままでよいのか。日本の歪みをあぶり出す。 　本誌は『週刊東洋経済』2015年10月17日号掲載の34ページ分を電子化したものです。

学校や資格試験対策で学んだ英語だけで海外のお客さまと取引をしたり、出張や駐在をしたりすることは可能でしょうか？ 答えはNoです。

Thanks to a bungled robbery at a fancy hotel, the already-married Eva Griffin has been caught in the company of a prominent congressman. To protect the politico, Eva's ready to pay the editor of a sleazy tabloid his hush money. But Perry Mason has other plans. He tracks down the phantom fat cat who secretly runs the blackmailing tabloid -only to discover a shocking scoop. By the time Mason's comely client finally comes clean, her husband has taken a bullet in the heart.

French literature may be said to begin with the ninth century "Song of Roland," and it has since then churned out masterpiece after masterpiece in every century right up to the present. Beginning with Balzac and Dumas in the early part of the nineteenth century and proceeding to Sartre and Camus at the midpoint of the twentieth, the stories in this collection showcase the talents of some of the greatest French masters of the short story.

２０１７年に成立した民法の一部改正が、２０２０年４月から施行された。１８９６（明治２９）年に制定され１２０年間にわたり専門家の解釈や判例の蓄積により補われてきた。法律の条文を見てもわかりづら

Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City. Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets her hair down in the city that never sleeps. She discovers a life filled with culture, sophistication, and - with a little encouragement from her friends - a few blind dates.

【内容紹介】鎌倉仏教の対極をなす法然と明恵。真逆の思想を持った二人の生きざまと人間的魅力に、比較宗教学を専門とする町田宗鳳氏が迫ります。【講師紹介】広島大学教授 町田宗鳳- 1950年、京都生まれ。14歳で出家し、以来20年間京都の大徳寺で修行をする。34歳で寺を離れ、以後数々の大学で教授をつとめる。著書『法然対明恵』『法然―世紀末の革命者』など多数。

名だたる文筆家が登場する、文藝春秋の文化講演会。絹、紙、金属だけでなく、モノの数え方をはじめとして色んな考え方が日本に入って来ました。その中で最大のものは仏教であります。人間はルーツを探そうとします。シルクロードに憧れる私たちの心は本能に根差したものなのです。(1988年10月9日 呉市中央公民館 菊池寛生誕百周年記念講演会より)
●出て行った ●誰が言い出したのか ●人間の芸術のはじまり ●モノと考え方 ●やって来た 文藝春秋の文化講演会は、文学談や執筆秘話に人生論も交え、含蓄と味わい深い講演があなたの生き方に豊かさと彩りを添えます。

世界のすべてを陰でコントロールする組織の存在を知ってしまった男は!?

Art history encompasses the study of the history and development of painting, sculpture, and the other visual arts. In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, Dana Arnold presents an introduction to the issues, debates, and artifacts that make up art history. Beginning with a consideration of what art history is, she explains what makes the subject distinctive from other fields of study and also explores the emergence of social histories of art (such as feminist art history and queer art history).